The College Record 2022

as serene at they once did; Summer Eights on the river; and, of course, much hard
work and exams, the latter being particularly challenging for some students, who
had not taken in-person exams for several years.
We were also able to finally come together across the College communities to
remember and celebrate the lives and contributions of former Fellows Peter Neumann,
Morrin Acheson, Brian McGuinness, and Colin Morris (the many that remember
Martin Edwards may wish to note that the College will honour him some time in
2024). Meanwhile, the summer saw the departure of Chaplain Katherine Price, to
become Vicar of Wantage, and the arrival of Alice Watson who is joining Queen’s
from Kettering.
From the Provost
As the Senior Tutor reports, Fellows’ achievements during the year reflected the
College’s strengths in disciplines across the breadth of the humanities, sciences, and
social sciences. Among those achievements were major prizes, awards, grants, and
Fellowships, the publications of many books and articles, the launch, by the College’s
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, of a new journal and, at the Weston
Library in the Bodleian until February 2023, the major new exhibition ‘Tutankhamun:
Excavating the Archive’ co-curated by Professor Richard B Parkinson.
Under the leadership of the Tutor for Access and Outreach, the new initiative for
Queen’s in the North entered its exciting next stage, signing up four schools in the
College’s historic link areas of Cumbria and Lancashire to work with us and our
partner, The Access Project (TAP). This means that, in the autumn, each school will
have a dedicated individual within it, identifying the students with greatest potential
and working with them and networks of tutors, including Queen’s Old Members and
students, to support them as they start studying for A-levels. TAP has a great track
record of working with schools in areas of socio-economic disadvantage, typically
doubling the numbers of students who get places at top universities.
Continuing the theme of reaching out to find those who can best benefit from and
contribute to what Queen’s can offer, at graduate level the College awarded four
scholarships in the University’s Black Academic Futures programme, continued
with the Commonwealth Shared Scholarship scheme, and signed up to the new
University-wide scheme to support eligible Ukrainian graduates.
With the return of full in-person activities, and a big backlog of delayed events,
College staff have delivered top quality events and kept operations running despite
sharing the significant recruitment problems facing Oxford’s hospitality sector. One
of our Butlers of Common Room, Savvas Savva also found time to organise the
first Queen’s team to run in the Oxford Town and Gown race for several years, and
Librarian Matthew Shaw organised a centenary cycle ride with the Historical Society
to mark 100 years since the route had been undertaken by members of the College.
A full account appears on the College website.
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